[He's a little embarrassed with how he looks away, but it's clear he's pleased.
Family was a term ascribed to two people bound to one another. Shinji knows he's his father's son, that one day he'll inherit what his father's built. The blood shared between them was there, even if his father wasn't. It had hurt when he was younger and naive enough to hope, but he was older now. Smart enough to push it aside, because allowing his attention to waver from what he'd been born to do would cut through that fragile link between the one man he despised and respected.
He didn't expect Shintaro, or Ene. He was accustomed to distance and the chill of formality, not this comfortable sense of attachment. He had friends, once, before he had to move away to work with his father. Sitting in this room, listening to the low hum of the air conditioning and the scratch of his pencil--
If home was a place of comfort, this was the closest to "home" he's felt in ages.]
Things have been quiet this week. [It's never quiet enough to warrant a day off, however. Shinji gets started on the next set of problems.] I'm kind of glad.
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You praise me too much.
[He's a little embarrassed with how he looks away, but it's clear he's pleased.
Family was a term ascribed to two people bound to one another. Shinji knows he's his father's son, that one day he'll inherit what his father's built. The blood shared between them was there, even if his father wasn't. It had hurt when he was younger and naive enough to hope, but he was older now. Smart enough to push it aside, because allowing his attention to waver from what he'd been born to do would cut through that fragile link between the one man he despised and respected.
He didn't expect Shintaro, or Ene. He was accustomed to distance and the chill of formality, not this comfortable sense of attachment. He had friends, once, before he had to move away to work with his father. Sitting in this room, listening to the low hum of the air conditioning and the scratch of his pencil--
If home was a place of comfort, this was the closest to "home" he's felt in ages.]
Things have been quiet this week. [It's never quiet enough to warrant a day off, however. Shinji gets started on the next set of problems.] I'm kind of glad.